Re: RFC: Extending method specializers



Bob Felts wrote:
Pascal Costanza <pc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Ken Tilton wrote:


Slava Akhmechet wrote:

Ken Tilton <kennytilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:



Like someone just learning to play the piano who falls in love with D
minor, the saddest of all keys, and wants to play nothing else. This
we call a disease, as in to be cured.

Not a natural part of a learning process?


Non sequitor. A natural part of a learning process /is/ getting stuck in
false minima, and indeed one of the biggest contributions of a coach is
spotting and, um, curing these blocks.

What if the coach is wrong? Or is that blasphemy?

It is not clear that the poster boy for CLOS obsession can offer much when CLOS obsession itself is the topic. Write applications (if you know what they are and/or can think of one to write) for a year without the CLOS package and get back to us.

Meanwhile, I am amused to recall that deftype accepts arbitrary forms, and typecase branches on these types even if GF method specialization will not, so the OPs RFE was not all that whacky. Maybe it /did/ come down to the issue of coming up with an ordering, as someone else pointed out.

kt

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